The phonoscope (Nov 1896-Dec 1899)

.8 THE PHONOSCOPE April, 1897 THE PHONOSCOPE Copyrighted 1896 published monthly by THE PHONOSCOPE PUBLISHING CO. 4 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK, U. S. A. SUBSCRIPTION : United States and Canada .... $i.oo per 3-ear Foreign Countries 1.50 " Single Copies 10c. each ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION THE PHONOSCOPE is the only journal in the world pub lished in the interest of Talking Machines, Picture Projecting and Animating Devices, and Scientific and Amusement Inventions appertaining to Sound and Sight. Correspondents in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Alexandria aud Constantinople, Australia, South America. Central America, Canada and 10S cities in the United States. Photography in colors, which so long eluded the research and endeavors of the scientist, was successfully accomplished some time ago. The new method is called the radio tint color process, and some of its results, a score of prints and transparencies, were put on private exhibition in New York City lately. The collection was brought from Paris by R. A. Anth ony of E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., who went abroad especially to investigate the discovery, and was shown at the office of the firm, which deals in photographic supplies in this city. The pictures embrace landscapes, marines, portraits aud several lots of coins and metal articles, the latter taken merely to illustrate the wonderful discrimination made by the new process in copying accurately delicate variations in coloring. The inventor is M. Yilliedieu Chassagne, of Paris, who has developed a process originally suggested by Dr. Adrian Dansac. He will make the photographs before your eyes, and will allow you to go through the whole performance yourself, but as yet will not tell the secret of the chemicals used. The application of color to the photographic print is by purely chemical means, aud the method is non-technically described thus: A negative is taken on a gelatine plate, prepared by treatment with a certain solution. This isdeveloped and fixed in the ordinary manner. It shows no trace of color. From it a print is taken on glass, or paper, the plate or paper being specially prepared by treatment with the same solution. The transparency, or the paper print, in no way differs in appearance from an ordinary positive, and* shows no trace of color by transmitted or reflected light. It is washed successively with three colored solutions, blue, green and red, and it takes up the appropriate colors in the appropriate parts, these three colors giving, by their various combinations, all varieties of hue. How it is that this power of selective absorption is given to the components of the photographic image is the interesting question connected with the process. In the landscapes every minute difference in the shades of the green verdure is brought out, and the sunlight effects through the trees and the falling of the rays on the turf in openings in the woodland is charmingly reproduced. In a portrait of Mr. Anthony himself, an inch of his watch chain is shown iu the yellow of the gold of which it is made, and the deep red of his scarf is perfectly reproduced. 3Irs. Anthony had herself photographed , wearing two bunches of violets, one lighter than the other; a yellow gown, a red hat and many colored ribbons. She was a symphony in colors, as she stood before the camera, and so was the picture that was made. A consignment of the chemicals with which the pictures are made will arrive in this country by July 1st. They are not expensive. By means of the radio tint scenes can be reproduced with absolute exactness. Xot only will the moving objects be pictured in their every motion, even to the flickc of an eyelash or the throb of a beating pulse, but probably the sounds will be heard, as iu nature. The discoverer or inventor never, or almost never, reaches the point of perfection unassisted, if perfection is ever obtained, which is doubtful. The telephone, telegraph, sewing machine, cotton gin, steam engine, X-rays, the use of antiseptics, anesthetics, and other classes of drugs and so on in countless numbers, may be cited as instances where the original thought was quickly and thoroughly developed by other minds. Every day in this era of specialization brings nearer the_ fulfilment of an original aud useful idea. The number of men. and women also, who are going in for the "highest education," which is a synonym for specialization, is increasing with rapidity. And with this increase, combined with the benefits of instruction by teachers who are themselves specialists, arise possibilities difficult to estimate, beyond the fact that no former development of an invention or discovery, whichever it may be, can equal what will be. So it will be with the kinetoscope, the machine which takes photographs with such sequent rapidity that when passed before the eye every motion of the scene portrayed is exact. It makes no difference whether oue looks at the quickly-passing photographs in their original size or when thrown by means of magnifying lenses upon a great screen. The process, however, is as yet incomplete, but the Frenchmen have already bettered the American invention and a few years will see it perfected. 4 Photography in colors will progress with rapid strides, now that the first essential steps have been taken. Phonography is alread_v on the high road to success. Combine motion, color and sound, and a scene is faithfully pictured. More than this combination might be unpleasant, for the two of the five known senses are enough in most instances. Perhaps an ultimate result will be the reproduction, bymeans of all-essential vibrations, to produce a delu sion for the others of the five senses. Taste may be omitted and also touch. But smell would be dis agreeable to many persons should the 'spectators ofthe prize fights of the future indulge in smoking. But no one can tell where the discoveries of science will end. The headquarters of the Yeriscope Company, at 244 West Twenty-third Street, this city, is a busy place nowadays. The managers have the following to say of the fims of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight ; "They are the most perfect production of the kind in the world, showing every movement of Corbet^ and Fitzsimmons from the time they entered the ring until they left it, giving a view of the timekeepers, the seconds of both men between the rounds, the action of all spectators in the immediate vicinity of the ring, including Mrs. Fitzsimmons, Senator Ingalls, Riley Grannan, "Pittsburgh Phil," and many others. The picture contains over ten thousand feet of film, will consume nearly one hour aud a half in exhibiting and the auditors will be able to decide upon all of the disputed points in connection with the contest. No one except those directlv interested can imagine the care, labor and expeuse that has been necessary to place this great enterprise ou the market. Xo picture has ever been shown before that covered over five hundred feet of film. The veriscope is the only machine existing capable of taking a longer one. The actual cost of the film used in taking the pictures is close on to $2,500, and it is only possible to print one copy of the tight every twenty-four hours, and in order to protect the picture from piracy the company is spending nearly $25,000, depositing copies of the film in the copyright office of every country of importance in the world. This must be done before one representation is given in public. In America, two copies must be deposited in Washington; in England, five copies at Stationer's Hall; in Canada, two at Ottawa; in France and Germany, two copies with the Minister of Agricul ture, and so on in all other Continental powers. A wicked war is to be waged against all fakirs, pirates and persons manufacturing, selling or exhibiting imitations of this picture. One scheme is to take the old Corbett-Courtney film, label it Corbett-Fitzsimmons, and mislead the public. Decided action is to taken against all unauthorized uses of it. The genuine Corbett-Fitzsimmons film will be ready for delivery on or about May 15, and it is the intention of the Yeriscope Company to place them in every State in the Union immediately." Xegal IHotices Leopold Wallach, and Moritz Wallach, composing the firm of Martin Wallach Nachfolger, of Cassell, Germany, lately filed a bill in equity in the United States Circuit Court against George S. Pilling and Charles J. Pilling, composing the firm of George S. Pilling & Son, of Philadelphia, asking to have the defendants enjoined from the making of an alleged infringement on an assigned patented invention for improvements in the phonendoscope, an apparatus for rendering small sounds distinctly audible on a magnified scale. An attachment secured by Edwin Hamerschlag in his suit against the Cathoscope Electrical Company was vacated upon the motion of the Allen Advertising Agency, a subsequent lienor. The First Appellate Division has now reversed the order vacating the attachment, holding that the Allen Advertising Agency had not made sufficient proof that it was a subsequent lienor, having failed to show that the judgment recovered by it in the City Court, in November, 1896, was valid. The City Court, having limited jurisdiction, it should have been shown that the court had acquired jurisdiction of the subject matter, and over the person of the defendant. The affidavit showed that the judgment was obtained upon personal service on the Secretary^ of the Cathoscope Company but it did not appear that such service was m-de within the City of New York, or under such circumstances as gave the City Court jurisdiction. It was held further, that the court below should have permitted plaintiff to read new affidavits upon the motion the application to vacate not having been made upon the papers upon which it was granted, but upon papers which were not in existence at the time the application was made to the Judge for the warrant of attachment. These were papers showing facts additional to those which had been presented to the courts by the plaintiff upon applyiag for the attachment. The Projectoscope people at Greensboro, N. C, were served with a notice last mouth by W. F. Bogart for a breach of contract, Mr. Bogart alleging that they had made a contract with him and then backed out. The papers were issued from Squire Keith's office. Col. Staples, for the plaintiff, asked for time to reply, and half an hour was given. After recess, affidavits being filed, Squire Eckel decided in favor of the defence, viz. : that the service of process was not properly made, and the case was dismissed. Plaintiff Bogart appealed and the case is just where it was at first. The Superior Court will settle it.